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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (187735)11/26/2006 12:18:33 AM
From: quehubo  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 794024
 
Poor business planning. Perhaps he cant count on exploiting illegal aliens as much going forward.

How many articles have we read about prison overcrowding? Seems a good capitalist would find a more reliable source of labor to exploit.



To: Alan Smithee who wrote (187735)11/26/2006 1:27:57 AM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 794024
 
Broetje Orchards, which happens to be the largest private orchard in the world, had to let 15 tons of fruit rot on the ground this fall due to lack of labor.

later this:

All I know is a hard working farmer lost 15 million pounds of fruit this fall.

Quite a difference. Which was it?

Broetje does not have many pears. I heard his apple crop was badly hail damaged early in the season. Might you be confusing the two issues?



To: Alan Smithee who wrote (187735)11/26/2006 2:44:15 AM
From: KLP  Respond to of 794024
 
That must account for why the cost of apples, even medicore ones are so expensive this year. Here in Seattle, where I shop, OFC tries to get a minimum of $1.70#, and apples like Granny Smith, and Braeburns are between $2.29 and $2.79 a pound!!!

I know we like apples here, but at those prices, it's just silly to buy boxes of them.

So they are rotting on the shelves too, I expect.